Domestic manufacturing
How many goods are made in the United States, whether factories and manufacturing jobs stay or return from overseas, whether governments must buy American-made goods, and what that means for workers and towns.
What they call for
DemocratsRepublicans27 new members addressed this issue. Many call for more than one thing.
Invest in and grow American manufacturing20Keep factories here and bring offshored manufacturing back7Give tax incentives to companies that make goods and hire here5Give American-made goods preference in government purchases3Expand defense manufacturing3Grow clean energy and electric vehicle manufacturing3End the current tariffs to protect manufacturing jobs3Work with allies and trade partners while building up manufacturing2
Invest in and grow American manufacturing
20 members“I’ll always support good investments and programs to facilitate economic development, manufacturing and modern jobs.”View on their website ↗
“Colin knows that Texas is a great state, and that to continue our success, we need to invest in our infrastructure and manufacturing.”View on their website ↗
“Creating long-term careers in energy, construction, maintenance, and advanced manufacturing”View on their website ↗
“I’m running for Senate with a different approach: End the war. Invest Michigan tax dollars in Michigan. End dumb tariffs and bad trade deals. Make stuff here and life affordable again to lighten the load.”View on their website ↗
“MAKE AMERICAN MADE”View on their website ↗
“We must promote American made and American built by growing American jobs and not outsourcing our manufacturing.”View on their website ↗
“America needs an economy that builds things, grows things, and produces energy here at home.”View on their website ↗
“I also authored tax cuts which President Trump signed into law to enhance private sector investment in factories and American manufacturing while bringing business back to the United States.”View on their website ↗
“I support investments in clean energy, advanced manufacturing, and electric vehicle production that reduce pollution while strengthening American industry and creating good-paying jobs.”View on their website ↗
“Revitalizing manufacturing by ending hidden-tariff taxes and supporting job training.”View on their website ↗
“Federal investments in workforce development and manufacturing innovation”View on their website ↗
“Jessica also knows that fiscal responsibility means boosting, not holding back, American innovation and the jobs that come with it. This means fighting to shape the industries of the future so that they both grow our economy and strengthen middle-class families – from high-tech manufacturing to artificial intelligence to digital assets.”View on their website ↗
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“Continue our state’s leadership in next-gen manufacturing”View on their website ↗
“We need to keep investing in manufacturing here at home to create good jobs and strengthen our local economies.”View on their website ↗
“Invest in infrastructure to support the jobs of the future, such as energy efficiency and sustainable manufacturing.”View on their website ↗
“We can’t produce everything we need in the United States. We should be producing more things here in the United States and supporting our manufacturers, but we should absolutely be working with allies and other democracies of the world, especially Canada, where people in New Hampshire have such close relationships.”View on their website ↗
“In Congress, Chris has also worked to safeguard American interests by bolstering American manufacturing and domestic energy production, which is not just critical for our economic well-being, but also an essential national security priority.”View on their website ↗
“I believe in “Made in America” in real, practical ways: in the jobs we create, the products we buy, and the communities we invest in. When we hollow out our manufacturing base and send work overseas, workers here at home are left with fewer opportunities and less security.”View on their website ↗
“Investing in American manufacturing means more than jobs. It means safer supply chains, stronger communities, and a future where working families can plan ahead instead of scrambling to survive the next economic shift.”View on their website ↗
“Rebuild American Manufacturing”View on their website ↗
“Mark is running for Congress to put that experience to work rebuilding American industry, cutting wasteful spending, and making Washington work for working families again.”View on their website ↗
“America needs to start building and producing again. I’ll fight for American energy, manufacturing, skilled trades, and policies that reward productivity over dependency. Strong nations depend on strong industries, good-paying jobs, and leaders who understand the real economy.”View on their website ↗
“Grow manufacturing and skilled trades”View on their website ↗
“To meet the resulting increased needs for EVs we must advance EV and battery supply chain development by expanding domestic production in support of good union jobs, fostering supply chain resilience and competition through focused development of our domestic mineral and battery production capacity, and promoting policies to expand workforce development and infrastructure in EV, battery, and mineral supply chains.”View on their website ↗
“Use Trade and Industrial Policy to Lift Up Workers: Claire will fight for policies that promote high-road domestic manufacturing, invest in critical supply chains, and support durable, unionized jobs in the industries of the future.”View on their website ↗
“End pointless tariffs If we want to bring back American manufacturing, we need a real plan to make sure we do it right. This includes investing in work and apprenticeship programs, our agricultural, manufacturing, and technology sectors, while working with global partners and making sure they abide by our terms. But angering our trading partners with frivolous tariffs has killed the revenue of farmers, and small businesses across the country.”View on their website ↗
“It’s vital that we win the AI race – the new space race – and promote manufacturing and infrastructure here in Texas at the federal level.”View on their website ↗
Keep factories here and bring offshored manufacturing back
7 members“Reshore manufacturing jobs, including continuing to add more defense manufacturing in Northeastern Pennsylvania.”View on their website ↗
“We must promote American made and American built by growing American jobs and not outsourcing our manufacturing.”View on their website ↗
“I also authored tax cuts which President Trump signed into law to enhance private sector investment in factories and American manufacturing while bringing business back to the United States.”View on their website ↗
“Keeping manufacturing here allows us to do things the right way: with strong environmental standards, skilled American workers, and modern technology that produces more with less waste.”View on their website ↗
“I’ll fight to bring federal investment back to Macomb County, supporting defense and aerospace innovation, protecting our auto manufacturing plants, and securing funding for environmental restoration and clean infrastructure projects that create high-quality local jobs.”View on their website ↗
“Christina’s plan supports "protecting our auto manufacturing plants." She believes these plants are key to Southeast MIchigan’s economy and our families, and will advocate for and pass policies that help expand the production of vehicles here in Southeast Michigan, regardless of whether they are gas-powered or electric.”View on their website ↗
“Senate President Troy Jackson of Allagash has filed a bill to protect the Shawmut Dam and jobs at the nearby Sappi Mill that depend on the dam.”View on their website ↗
“As elected officials, we should do everything in our power to help, not hurt, mills like Sappi who hire Mainers into good-paying jobs.”View on their website ↗
“Bring supply chains, factories, and good-paying jobs back to the United States.”View on their website ↗
“End pointless tariffs If we want to bring back American manufacturing, we need a real plan to make sure we do it right. This includes investing in work and apprenticeship programs, our agricultural, manufacturing, and technology sectors, while working with global partners and making sure they abide by our terms. But angering our trading partners with frivolous tariffs has killed the revenue of farmers, and small businesses across the country.”View on their website ↗
Give tax incentives to companies that make goods and hire here
5 members“Andy also championed the Made in America tax credit that helped secure a $1B investment from Apple into the Corning manufacturing plant in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. This investment doubles jobs at the plant, where all the iPhone and AppleWatch glass will now be produced.”View on their website ↗
“I will work to raise the corporate tax rate on the largest, most profitable businesses, while expanding incentives for companies that invest here at home: building plants and factories in Tennessee, funding research and development, creating domestic jobs, and purchasing American-made machinery and equipment.”View on their website ↗
“Provide incentives for producers utilizing Made in America raw goods and inputs throughout the supply chain.”View on their website ↗
“I also authored tax cuts which President Trump signed into law to enhance private sector investment in factories and American manufacturing while bringing business back to the United States.”View on their website ↗
“Senate President Troy Jackson, D-Allagash, introduced legislation to support good-paying paper manufacturing jobs in rural, economically distressed areas of the state. LD 2123, “An Act To Create Fairness in the Revitalization of Maine’s Paper Industry,” creates a tax credit for paper manufacturing companies headquartered in Maine, like the Twin River Paper Mill in Madawaska, that maintain high levels of employment and pay workers above-average salaries for the area.”View on their website ↗
Give American-made goods preference in government purchases
3 members“Growing up in Mansfield, Ohio, Sherrod saw firsthand how politicians and corporations lobbied for bad trade deals that shipped Ohio jobs overseas. That’s why he’s always stood up to his own party to oppose trade agreements that put Ohio workers at a disadvantage, like NAFTA. Sherrod opposed President Obama on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, worked with President Trump to renegotiate NAFTA, and worked with former Senator Rob Portman to secure the strongest-ever Buy America protections in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.”View on their website ↗
“Today, the Maine Senate approved legislation from Senate President Troy Jackson, D-Allagash, to establish the Buy American and Build Maine Act in a vote of 22-12.”View on their website ↗
“If there is work that needs to be done in this state and in this country, and taxpayers are footing the bill, then the people living, working and paying taxes in this state and country should have the opportunity to do the job. And if there are materials or parts needed to do the job, those materials should be American-made whenever possible.”View on their website ↗
“Today, Senate President Troy Jackson, D-Allagash, introduced Buy American, Build Maine legislation alongside Maine-based businesses at a public hearing before the Legislature’s State and Local Government Committee. LD 1411, “An Act To Establish the Maine Buy American and Build Maine Act” would give preference to Maine-based businesses, workers and American manufacturing when the state awards procurement contracts.”View on their website ↗
“Buy American, Hire American”View on their website ↗
Expand defense manufacturing
3 members“Reshore manufacturing jobs, including continuing to add more defense manufacturing in Northeastern Pennsylvania.”View on their website ↗
“When we invest in Great Lakes restoration, environmental standards, clean energy, green manufacturing, and a strong defense industrial base here in Michigan, we are strengthening our environment, our economy, and our national security all at once.”View on their website ↗
“Expand defense manufacturing jobs”View on their website ↗
Grow clean energy and electric vehicle manufacturing
3 members“When we invest in Great Lakes restoration, environmental standards, clean energy, green manufacturing, and a strong defense industrial base here in Michigan, we are strengthening our environment, our economy, and our national security all at once.”View on their website ↗
“I support investments in clean energy, advanced manufacturing, and electric vehicle production that reduce pollution while strengthening American industry and creating good-paying jobs.”View on their website ↗
“Invest in infrastructure to support the jobs of the future, such as energy efficiency and sustainable manufacturing.”View on their website ↗
“To meet the resulting increased needs for EVs we must advance EV and battery supply chain development by expanding domestic production in support of good union jobs, fostering supply chain resilience and competition through focused development of our domestic mineral and battery production capacity, and promoting policies to expand workforce development and infrastructure in EV, battery, and mineral supply chains.”View on their website ↗
End the current tariffs to protect manufacturing jobs
3 members“Christina has vehemently advocated to end Trump’s tariffs in order to protect auto jobs here in Southeast Michigan.”View on their website ↗
“Revitalizing manufacturing by ending hidden-tariff taxes and supporting job training.”View on their website ↗
“End pointless tariffs If we want to bring back American manufacturing, we need a real plan to make sure we do it right. This includes investing in work and apprenticeship programs, our agricultural, manufacturing, and technology sectors, while working with global partners and making sure they abide by our terms. But angering our trading partners with frivolous tariffs has killed the revenue of farmers, and small businesses across the country.”View on their website ↗
Work with allies and trade partners while building up manufacturing
2 members“We can’t produce everything we need in the United States. We should be producing more things here in the United States and supporting our manufacturers, but we should absolutely be working with allies and other democracies of the world, especially Canada, where people in New Hampshire have such close relationships.”View on their website ↗
“End pointless tariffs If we want to bring back American manufacturing, we need a real plan to make sure we do it right. This includes investing in work and apprenticeship programs, our agricultural, manufacturing, and technology sectors, while working with global partners and making sure they abide by our terms. But angering our trading partners with frivolous tariffs has killed the revenue of farmers, and small businesses across the country.”View on their website ↗
Raised the issue without a specific call
1 member“For 30 years, the American worker has paid the price of policies of failed globalism. Manufacturing jobs were shipped overseas and working families were left behind.”View on their website ↗
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